ATTRA

APRIL 8, 2024

In this video, Russell Hollander of Care2Grow Farm in Naples, Florida, guides us through the captivating journey of medicinal and gourmet mushroom cultivation, unveiling the intricate process from substrate to harvest. Explore the incredible potential of mushrooms and discover additional streams of income that mushroom production can offer!

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ATTRA

AUGUST 20, 2024

Clothes made from this cotton are compostable and don’t contain harmful microplastics, unlike synthetic fabrics. Together, we can cultivate a fashion industry that honors the health of our planet and the well-being of its people. Brands and designers play a big role in promoting these sustainable practices.

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Kavya Organic Farm

JULY 19, 2023

In this article, we’ll explore the fascinating world of Adenium arabicum, from its origins to cultivation tips and more. Instead, it develops at a steady pace, making it a perfect plant for enthusiasts who appreciate the art of cultivation and patience. Here are some tips for successful indoor cultivation: 1.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 30, 2024

Photo by Cultivate KC Editor’s Note: This post is part of a multi-part series exploring some of the key sustainable agriculture and food systems challenges that the farm bill can address. Urban farmers and community garden networks cultivate, process, and distribute food utilizing micro-scale and innovative production techniques.

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Kavya Organic Farm

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Whether you’re a seasoned gardener or a novice, this article will guide you through all aspects of cultivating and caring for the Desert Rose. Attractive Bonsai Specimens: Adenium obesum is highly sought-after for bonsai cultivation due to its distinctive caudex and intricate branching patterns.

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Kavya Organic Farm

JULY 22, 2023

Whether you’re a seasoned gardener or a novice, this article will guide you through all aspects of cultivating and caring for the Desert Rose. Attractive Bonsai Specimens: Adenium obesum is highly sought-after for bonsai cultivation due to its distinctive caudex and intricate branching patterns.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 4, 2024

Her Belgian start-up cultivates mycelium—the thread-like root structure of fungus—using the plastic- and toxin-laden stubs as fodder. A designer by training, Speyer stumbled on fungi while searching for a sustainable and easy-to-cultivate material. Fungi are nature’s recyclers,” says PuriFungi’s Audrey Speyer.

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Kavya Organic Farm

JULY 29, 2023

By adopting practical lawn care practices and promoting a healthy soil environment, you can cultivate a green oasis where worms play a vital role as nature’s gardeners, contributing to a resilient and sustainable lawn. Can I compost earthworm castings for my garden? Yes, earthworm castings are excellent compost material.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 10, 2023

Ravage has spent a decade cultivating wild saprophytes and perfecting methods of applying them in Colorado’s forests. It’s a cheaper and more climate-friendly alternative to trucking in compost from Vermont. Some Front Range farmers pay to truck in compost from Vermont. Read more Climate Change Ravage doubts it could be so easy.

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ATTRA

MARCH 12, 2024

Yet, we tend to restrict ourselves to greens cultivated primarily for their leaves, leaving them susceptible to bolting in high temperatures or losing leaves to disease. Carrot Tops Carrots originated in Persia and were cultivated for their aromatic leaves and seeds. They are boiled and cooked and used in various recipes.

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Kavya Organic Farm

JULY 14, 2023

Cultivating Parda Bel: Tips and Tricks Cultivating Parda Bel can be a rewarding experience, bringing the beauty of nature into your own backyard. A fertile soil mix enriched with organic matter, such as compost, will promote healthy growth. Avoid overwatering, as it can lead to root rot.

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Kavya Organic Farm

JULY 29, 2023

By adopting practical lawn care practices and promoting a healthy soil environment, you can cultivate a green oasis where worms play a vital role as nature’s gardeners, contributing to a resilient and sustainable lawn. Can I compost earthworm castings for my garden? Yes, earthworm castings are excellent compost material.

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Food Tank

JULY 2, 2024

Barefoot Biodynamics: How Cows, Compost, and Community Help Us Understand Rudolf Steiner’s Agriculture Course by Jeff Poppen In Barefoot Biodynamics , Jeff Poppen integrates stories from his time in rural Tennessee in his guide to biodynamic principles and practices.

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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

We fed our garden compost and didn’t spray chemicals on it. Rather than cultivating farmer friendships, he cultivated urban customer friendships. He invented a portable electric fencing system, mobile shade, mobile animal structures while the neighbors built stationary everything. People at church wanted to know.

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Kavya Organic Farm

JULY 29, 2023

By adopting practical lawn care practices and promoting a healthy soil environment, you can cultivate a green oasis where worms play a vital role as nature’s gardeners, contributing to a resilient and sustainable lawn. Can I compost earthworm castings for my garden? Yes, earthworm castings are excellent compost material.

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Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Whether it’s a farm or an urban park, a community garden, or a tree planted in the sidewalk, we’d do well to cultivate these connections with, and affection for, place. DY: How do you cultivate your connection to the land you live on now, in urban Memphis? We can’t “technology” ourselves out of environmental and social crises.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Many conventional farmers implement organic practices such as compost applications, diversified rotations, cover cropping, or biological integrated pest management (IPM) to build healthy soil and reduce the direct and environmental costs of production. Managing soil health, pests, and diseases in protected cultivation such as high tunnels.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 1, 2024

As the companies see it, the process is more efficient than growing fibers naturally; traditional silk, for example, is biodegradable and long-lasting, but cultivation can use large amounts of water and pesticides. Those fibers can be plant-derived, mycelium, cultivated animal cells, microbe-derived, recycled materials and blends.

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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

This is generally accomplished by mechanically removing plants by flail mowing, tillage, cultivation equipment, or by manual labor. Although no-till implies not tilling at all, many no-till market gardeners still rely on some form of light tillage to create a seed bed or apply copious amounts of compost as a mulch to create a seed bed.

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Kavya Organic Farm

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Consider organic alternatives: If you prefer using organic fertilisers, you can opt for compost tea or a slow-release organic fertiliser specifically designed for cacti and succulents. It is important to avoid fertilising during this time as it may disrupt the natural growth cycle of the plant.

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ATTRA

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

What makes our crop plants different is selective breeding and cultivation in environments far from their original sites. A perennial plant might require more quality compost added to the soil to help swing the balance of soil microbes to a more favorable fungus content. Think about plants in nature.

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Kavya Organic Farm

JULY 18, 2023

Mix compost, peat moss, and perlite to create a balanced and aerated growing medium that promotes root development and prevents waterlogged soil. When growing beefsteak tomatoes in pots, choose a balanced fertilizer or organic compost that provides essential nutrients throughout the growing season.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 11, 2024

And so, even though they grew abundantly without being planted, most of them just went to the compost pile. I’m not saying 100 percent, but it’s less of a cultivated garden, which is almost all created and planted by a person. They weren’t trendy like kale, nor did they have an old standby reputation like spinach.

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CalCAN

AUGUST 15, 2023

It would cover the cost of installing equipment and infrastructure for dry scraping manure or separating solids to produce compost for bedding, for application to fields as a substitute for chemical fertilizer, or for sale. Transitioning to or increasing pasture-based production would also be eligible.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Huberto Juan Martinez uses organic fertiliser/compost at his plantation. “The goal is to cultivate at least a thousand plants there, creating a kind of repository for the seven varieties,” he explains, detailing his vision for preserving vanilla and, by extension, safeguarding the heritage of his Chinantec culture.

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Kavya Organic Farm

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Consider organic alternatives: If you prefer using organic fertilisers, you can opt for compost tea or a slow-release organic fertiliser specifically designed for cacti and succulents. It is important to avoid fertilising during this time as it may disrupt the natural growth cycle of the plant.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

She also employs cover crops, composting, and reduced tillage. At Fifth Crow Farm, she has obtained NRCS funding to plant native hedgerows which she intends, “to provide habitat and travel corridors for beneficial insects and pollinators.” We appreciate your work!

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ATTRA

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Importantly, compost cannot be used as a growing medium for microgreens due to the high risk of foodborne illness and contamination. Conclusion Microgreens offer a unique blend of nutritional benefits and simplicity in cultivation, making them an appealing option for both personal use and profitable farming.

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Caff

JUNE 13, 2023

Keep flammables away from cultivation and livestock holding areas as well as from freshwater and/or irrigation sources to minimize the potential for drift. Amending with compost to bind soil contaminants may help break down organic chemicals (like dioxins) in soils, and would be appropriate for low-level contamination.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 5, 2024

Mountain ranges trap emissions from highway traffic, locomotives, municipal composting facilities, tractors, and burning. First adopted in 2004, the rule promotes reduced tillage and other management practices on cultivated lands to reduce dust and improve soil health. tons of PM2.5 have been reduced per day.

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Sustainable Harvest International

MAY 4, 2022

During this period of time, the family also participated in diverse theoretical and practical training on the elaboration of organic fertilizers, making use of local resources, and composting. They also took part in workshops on transformational leadership, small business management, and microfinancing through a partnership program.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

Orchards, vines and other perennials cultivated as long-term investments have steadily replaced ephemeral crops such as tomatoes and cotton, which are far less costly to sacrifice or replace. (Photo courtesy of Lerda-Goni Farms) Since the 1983 flood, changes in farming patterns have also raised the basin’s economic risk, he notes.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

But intensive cultivation and lack of variety led to challenges in productivity. K” Kolodge, who manages soils and compost for the dairy, said it would be tough to ensure predictable yield on rainwater alone. A staple crop at the state’s missions starting in the late 1700s, the grain proved adaptable to the Mediterranean climate.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

By ‘lack of humus’ he is referring to the increasing trend, even then, to dispense with returning organic matter to the soil, for example, in the form of composted farmyard manure, that was made possible by the development of synthetic fertilisers. .” By ‘short-circuit’ feeding, he means the use of artificial fertilisers.

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RR2CS

MARCH 19, 2024

Dedicated to cultivating a thriving local food economy and sustainable farming sector, Just Food integrates agroecology-based conservation with land stewardship. The farm is a testament to how community-led initiatives can redefine our food systems, offering food sovereignty for all, including newcomers to Canada.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Sprinkled throughout the recipes are fascinating historical tidbits about the Quaker who first cultivated rhubarb in the 1730s, for example, and the Indigenous tribes that used spruce tip tea to ward off scurvy. To make an amaro (relatively easy!) you need to first learn to make a tincture.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 3, 2024

Singer’s respect for soil inspired her to found Carbon Sponge , an interdisciplinary platform that honors this threatened resource by cultivating healthy soil to foster carbon sequestration. So, the experiment combined “technosol,” also known as human-engineered soil, a mix of sediment and compost, in different ratios.

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